Re: 'withing' problem

[Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:23:53 -0500, Matthew Heaney wrote:
> This reminds me of something I read on Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of
> Motorcycle Maintenance.  When the platypus was discovered (it's a mammal
> that lays eggs), scientists concluded that it was a freak of nature!

[...]

> Simon argued that my solution was inadequate, because there was no simple
> way to a automatically generate my code from the UML diagram.

Conclusion; the solution is a freak of UML. ;-) Seriously, as a chemist
I would wish that it would be easier to model the nature, but the
problem is that the nature is extremely complex. One have to make
solutions that have some sort of assumptions in them that can be
justified.

Preben Randhol
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